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Resource summary

1 - theory of group membership and intergroup relations based on
self-categorisation, social comparison and the construction of a
shared self-definition in terms of in-group defining properties

1.1 Social Identity and Personal Identity

1.1.1 Social identity is
associated with group
and intergroup
behaviours such as
ethnocentrism,
ingroup bias, group
solidarity, intergroup
discrimination,
conformity, normative
behaviour,
stereotyping and
prejudice

1.1.2 Personal identity is
associated with
positive and
negative close
interpersonal
relationships and
with idiosyncratic
personal behaviour

1.2 Process of Social Identity Salience

1.2.1 Our sense of self and associated perceptions
rest on whether social or personal identity, and
which is the psychologically salient basis of
self-conception

1.2.1.1 Metacontrast principle -
the prototype of a group
is that position within
the group that has the
largest ratio of
'differences to ingroup
positions' to 'differences
to outgroup positions'

1.2.1.2 Structural Fit

1.2.1.2.1 If the
categorisation
fits in the sense
that it accounts
for similarities
and differences
between people
satisfactorily

1.2.1.3 Normative Fit

1.2.1.3.1 If it makes good
sense of why people
are behaving in
particular ways